Archives: March 2008

Design is Dead: The Raw Philippe Starck Interview

Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on March 31

Check out Starck's entire interview on why he's disgusted with design--or at least HIS kind of design. My favorite question-response in the Die Zeit interview is this: ZEIT: So all...

Design Is Dead. Philippe Starck Says So. Again.

Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on March 30

It's deja vu all over again for me but Philippe Starck just told a German magazine Die Zeit that “I was a producer of materiality and I am ashamed of...

Did Boeing Go Too Far In Open Innovation?

Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on March 30

We're all gung-ho these days on open innovation, taking down the internal corporate walls, blowing up the NIH, Not Invented Here, culture and globalizing. But Boeing is sending us a...

New Solar Tiles For Roofs--Tiles, Not Panels.

Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on March 30

Peter Bressler of the BresslerGroup is an old friend and incredible designer. His last great product, the Vocal Smoke Detector allowed mothers and fathers to record their own voices to...

Innovation at General Motors: Is Pontiac The Next BMW?

Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on March 28

Diego Rodriguez, partner at IDEO, prof at Stanford D-School and car nut is my guru on innovation in autos and he has a great post on what's going on at...

Cool iPhone Beta Application--Pocket Planet Glazer.

Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on March 28

Check out this video of an iPhone apps about the solar system that David Armano at Critical Mass put together. (If you have an iPhone or Safari, click here). I...

Tata Buys Land Rover And Jaguar. Now It Has To "Nano" Them.

Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on March 27

There is, of course, a certain historic irony to the ex-colony coming to the rescue of the imperial power--India's fast-growing Tata Group buying the very British Land Rover and Jaguar....

Motorola Splits in Two--Why The Razr Was a Fluke And What The Company Needs To Do Now.

Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on March 26

Motorola has decided to split itself in two--a failing mobile-phone business and a so-so network equipment/two-way radio/set-top box business. This is a default strategy. Motorola tried for months to sell...

20 Free, New Online Games! The New Gaming And New Games.

Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on March 25

Check out the great package on how designers are transforming games from toys to socially rich entertainment. Helen Walters, the doyen of the Innovation & Design channel and Matt Vella...

Kleiner Perkins Sets Up Venture iFund For iPhone Platform.

Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on March 20

I recently posted a piece on how four game-changing innovation spaces can spark economic growth and pull us out of the deepening recession. The one suggestion that sparked the most...

Young Global Leaders From India.

Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on March 18

Since so much of NussbaumOnDesign's audience is in India, I thought I'd break out the names of those Indians who were just selected as members of the World Economic Forum's...

Young Global Leaders--Anderson Cooper and Leonardo DiCaprio Are In The Most Exclusive Private Social Network In The World.

Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on March 18

The World Economic Forum out of Davos just announced its new 2008 list of YGLs--Young Global Leaders. In a growing universe of private social networks, the YGL network has got...

JP Morgan Chase Joins With The Federal Reserve To Bailout Bear Stearns--Welcome To The New World of Financial Innovation.

Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on March 17

When I was in Davos in January, moderating workshops and panels on innovation, there was a deep undercurrent of anger at "financial innovation." People were grumbling, "thanks for all that...

How 4 Game-Changing Innovation Spaces Can End The Recession And Return The Economy To Growth.

Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on March 14

As I feared, the recession is turning out to be much worse than expected. It is going to be sharper, deeper and probably longer than recent shallow recessions. We are...

The Sarah Lacy/Mark Zuckerberg Fiasco Has Deep Meaning For Social Media.

Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on March 12

I just got back from Death Valley and was hoping to share some deep thoughts about our future but everyone is yakking about the Zuckerberg/Sarah Lacy interview fiasco (and the...